* Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-29 23:25]: > On 29 Nov 2007, at 22:09, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >> Why this mental overhead? Do they really have to be ordered? >> Is there any way that any other order would do anything >> remotely useful? Would `save,fail,all` be useful? Or >> `all,save,fail`? Every order I can think of besides the one >> you gave is pretty useless in an order-sensitive scheme. > > Sure - in that case. But > > failed,todo,all > > would do something sensible and distinct from > > todo,failed,all
Aha. I see; those were examples that hadn’t come up before. So ordering is useful to avoid an explosion of options. At the same time, there is a bunch of aspects where order sensitivity clearly does not make sense: does save,todo,failed do something useful? Or todo,save,failed? Or all,failed,todo or all,todo,failed? There is also Eric’s inquiry about how composed commands line, eg. from aliases, would be handled. Hm. I think this needs more thought… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>